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its really a combination of problems not just one, the servers are one of the problems however. i've been saying it for over a year, they keep repurposing the same old machines with more demanding software, expecting it to preform the same as they did back in the very begining.

Beta testing? wildcard? lol

mutliple servers i play on have been experiencing daily crashes sense the last big patch, higher ping rates, and the added 3x event on top of that with the mass breeding people are doing is making it even worse. So far the Genesis server that i play on is the only one that hasn't crashed yet *knock on wood* but were having extremely high lag spikes, especially when loading in bases, or facing a pack of raptors.

alot of people have been having issues with the servers crashing left and right, 4 people asked me if i could see their server from my friends list, all 4 were down, noted that the 3 extinction server I play on sometimes for gettting gacha, who's pings are normally low were also down, as well as a abberation server and my main server. My main servers crashed multiple times daily for the past several days.

server lag i bet is aweful on all servers right now, just like every breeding event thats ever hit ark.

Epic FAIL on wildcards part - Not enough Servers for the Number of people who purchased Genesis

8:51 PST - Ark Update available - 25.6gb download it says on one machine, 24.33gb on the other machine. it always amazes me how the update sizes are the same with just about every game... except ark.

*looks at clock* wildcard has some strange idea what PST is lol....

wildcards clock is broken again lol.

yeah, basically its zombies on speed lol... super fast, super deadly. I searched for a dino mod, but haven't found anything lol. anyhow we should let them get back to talking about ark here

i'd played 1k hours on it before, but from when i originally played to know, alot has changed, the entire crafting system has been redone, so its a whole new learning process again. you can play in 'survival' mode and set it to no zombies, so its just you and the wildlife, trying to suvive, basically like playing minecraft lol. the zombies do add a addional threat, and you can set them to walk, jog, run, or 'oh hell no!' modes for the various types of zombies you'll meet in game. honestly only 3 things are a thread - dogs/wolves (including undead), boars... don't go against one without a gun... and bears... oh yes the bears... i wonder if you can still run them over with a minibike... lol... Now i just need a dino mod for it... that replaces most the zombies with dinos! lol wouldn't that be something. imagine... exploring a military bunker and 'gahh t-rex!' lol... Still going to play ark but i need a breather, been breeding way too much and its kinda well... wore me out on the game for the moment... so doing this game as a break point, change things up, and rekindle that love for ark.

logged in to ark today, refreshed server... fed dino's at main base... sat there for a minute looking around... logged out... Generated a map for 7 days to die... played for awhile on it: i'm sure it looks abit familiar...

i logged in today to find that a 2x6 grid of my ceiling was gone to my baby hatchery. nothing in the log about it, litterally looked like someone broke in, but in PvE? i'd expect to see something like that happen in pvp but not pve. sat around making element from my dust gacha, called it a day in ark, and gave 7 days to die a go with my tribe mate, that games changed alot sense i played it last, man those zombies! got killed by a small horde twice in one night on day 2 lol. sometimes its good to take a break from ark, and toss a different game into the mix.

nice job, sadly all my wolves (Along with a bunch of other dinos) vanished somehow from the cryofridge during the last patch. so I have no more had some really pretty ones too.

i went through a good 100 eggs to get 20 good rexs that looked nice color wise, but im not done there, i still have to make a second set of rexs with the new stats for the island to replace the old boss rexs, got a few nice 1007 melee / 1125 melee ones ranging from 23-29hp. I'll need to down breed the levels on a couple as well. just made another 20 eggs today and tucked them away in the fridge for further down the road, maybe the next holiday event

Worked on the babies more today, had as many out as i could get in the baby pen but... i was rather bored sitting around waiting for imprint timers... so I grabbed my rifle and my tranq darts, and a stack of superior kibble... and set out on a mission to tame a couple anky... tamed a piggy cause it was black, two iguanodon, two ptera, and a couple anky: I have a few good high level colored anky's already, and i think im gonna mix n' match with some of these guys for a breeding project to get better stats and more color mixes. The other anky's will sit quietly tucked away in a cryofridge till a new player comes along my beach who needs one again. it'll make them happy.

I'm just going by the information that they have given me with my tickets for recent dino and character loss.

They will not restore any ones character past 105, they can not add the ascension or full implant which grant the ability for additional levels after 105. They also do not restore engrams in normal cases, and especially without validation of earned engrams, I'm guessing your referring to the tek engrams there. Inventory items can not be restored but can be replaced if you have proof of what was in your inventory prior to the character being lost, why its a good idea to take a screenshot of your character and its inventory before transferring servers. Likewise they won't restore any fertile eggs that were in your inventory, as spawned fertile eggs you will most likely end up with a level 1 baby. dino restorations from lost dinos either from transfer or cryo'ed dinos in your character inventory are limited by the following restrictions for restoration currently: They are unable to control the stats, mutation, or gender of the tames. They are unable to restore any lost items that were on the dinosaur. They will not restore any dinosaurs with levels over 150 without visual evidence (201 max). They do not raise tame nor give imprint. They cannot restore/hatch any eggs. Wyverns (Fire, Lightning, Poison, Ice) and Rock Drake cannot be spawned over level 190 They will not restore Reaper, Phoenix, Unicorn, Any Titans, Forest Wyvern, Mek, Enforcer, or Scout Retries on tames are prohibited due to time constraints. They cannot spawn more than 10 dinos They do restore ownership of any structures you had, and dinos and give the existing baby imprints back to the restored character, but can not do anything about the imprints on adult dino's you had. All this is generally outlined to the player prior to them placing a appointment for the character restoration, and they require visual proof of things before restoring them. Honestly if they just ran around giving everyone a level 135 with full ascension, all the tek gear they wanted, full engrams, and dinos they say they lost, a bunch of beach bobs would be filing support tickets yelling that they lost their character, dinos, gear and wanted it back. Without proof its really guess work. I lost my main character and had to file a support ticket to get it back, provided as much visual proof as i could for the restoration process, and honestly, I'm glad I got back what I did, else it would of been a real grind trying to get the babies redone, and leveling back to where i was. Honestly, it could be alot worse, they could just not provide any form of character restoration and just go "well, guess your out of luck".

Spent my time during the ExtraLife Event breeding rexs for color mixing, got a few I'm going to hold on to here's some shots of them:

if you want the power grid to work properly too, you have to run a line into the geny and a line out of the geny without any connected lines in-between, else it may break your power grid, plus all lines after the geny aren't restricted to the 20 something distance length for power, so windmill -> strait cable -> attach geny -> cable out from geny -> your power grid. Don't have any other connections to the windmill.

we cryo'ed our dinos as well for the event to help evade the dino cap abit, I wish more people would cryo their unused dino's rather then leaving them all out it would help with that problem during more then just the event.

PVE-Official-TheIsland A picture is worth a thousand words... and sums up my day... "They called me mad... I just laughed"

there is the upcoming extralife event on nov. 2nd, and mention of possibly getting the turkey event, and of course the winder event. I agree with the colors, many blan ones, but I did get a nice owl. I had major issues finding any bone dino's on the island map (official) before the last patch but seeing more alphas as skeleton ones so getting bones there is easier if you know where the alphas normally spawn, and there have been several bone giga showing up between the three mountains.

spent more time on my babies who had been in cryofreeze for far too long, got the owls done today, still have the rex and giga to finish off, and a few thyla, i may bring them out tomorrow. nothing exciting, just making good use of the 2x maturing of the babies.

any kibble that is a higher tier then what the baby is asking for will work for it, i.e. if it asks for basic and you have simple, it will work.